Re: [Clamav-users] Default clamscan tmp dir & custom uid/gid set during configure

2007-09-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > > And this works even with the clamav and amavis users and groups > removed. I'll be updating and testing my script and will release an > updated version soon. Thanks everyone for the feedback, I think all of > this shows that the issue appears to be with access to /dev/nul

Re: [Clamav-users] Default clamscan tmp dir & custom uid/gid set during configure

2007-09-22 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > In a default configure (simply "./configure" without any config options > set) and build of clamav, what temporary directory does clamav use by > default - that is, the temporary directory that can be overridden with > the following clamscan flag?: > Poking around in the code

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd problem

2007-09-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Matthias Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > I have a little problem with clamd: > the process terminates, because: > Socket file /tmp/clamd is in use by another process. > > now I have no glue, which other process could use the socket file from clamd. > I set the permissions to 777 on the end, but didn'

Re: [Clamav-users] Logging to /var/spool/mail/root

2007-09-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
McGlynn, Sean (DOB) wrote: > Hello, > > The /var/spool/mail/root log files on our servers are logging every file > that clamav scans, causing the files to become huge. I don't see what > in our clamd.conf configuration files would be causing this. Our > configuration file follows - any help wou

Re: [Clamav-users] Logging to /var/spool/mail/root

2007-09-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: > McGlynn, Sean (DOB) wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The /var/spool/mail/root log files on our servers are logging every file >> that clamav scans, causing the files to become huge. I don't see what >> in our clamd.conf configura

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > Bill Landry wrote: >> After a discussion on the clamav-users list yesterday of an issue a >> couple of script users were experiencing with write access to the >> temporary directory, I made a change to the script to overcome this >> issue. There are also a couple of other scri

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jan-Pieter Cornet wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:17:35PM -0700, Bill Landry wrote: >>> Epoch time: >>> perl -e 'print time() . "\n";' > > Golfed: > > perl -le print+time > > You can even leave the -l switch if used in ``, because the trailing > newline doesn't matter there. > It wouldn't

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jan-Pieter Cornet wrote: > > So, TIMTOTDI squared (look ma', no perl!). This does the same as > date +%s too: > > echo|awk '{print systime()}' > But not in Solaris which is where the OP's original hack was born. You need gawk: echo|gawk '{print systime()}' My favorite absurd method in S

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > > Okay, let's try this again. A new update has been posted that will first try > "date +%s" and if that fails, then it will automatically fall back to a perl > option. I didn't update the version number, just the version info: You can rip out a lot of code (well, some code

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Kyle Lanclos wrote: > Dennis wrote: >> You can rip out a lot of code (well, some code) if you just use the Perl >> date method by default and forget the date +%s stuff entirely. > > Your mileage may vary. > > $ time perl -le print+time > > real0m0.002s > > $ time date +%s > > real0m0.

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote the following on 9/25/2007 8:06 PM -0800: >> Bill Landry wrote: >> >> >>> Okay, let's try this again. A new update has been posted that will first >>> try >>> "date +%s" and if that fails

Re: [Clamav-users] Updated unofficial-sigs.sh script available

2007-09-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote the following on 9/25/2007 9:45 PM -0800: >> Also - if you do all your tests up front and discover you'll need to run >> multiple instances of perl you may find you can collect multiple code >> segments into a single execution

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: > >> Yes, I'm periodically doing scans of the full drive. I could just skip >> the mysql directory, but that seems pretty bad security practice. > > Why does it seem that way to you ? > > I don't think scanni

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: > > Is there any way I can disable the check for Email.FreeGame? Is there any reason to suspect this file will ever contain a viable virus? If not then don't bother scanning it. Sorry I don't have an answer for your question. dp __

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jon Wagoner - Red Cheetah wrote: >>> Yes, I'm periodically doing scans of the full drive. I could just >> skip >>> the mysql directory, but that seems pretty bad security practice. >> Why does it seem that way to you ? > > It appears clamav just does a substring match on the exclude, so it > woul

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jeff Thurston wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Adams >> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:48 AM >> To: 'ClamAV users ML' >> Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage >> >> Once upon a time

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jeff Thurston wrote: > > Please forgive my ignorance, I don't use strace very much... > > I assume it is as simple as waiting for the process to get stuck at 100% > again, then 'strace -p ` and look for... what should I look for? Yes, pretty much it. You should probably also use the -f (follow)

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Jeff Thurston wrote: >>> -Original Message- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:clamav-users- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Adams >>> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:48 AM >>> To: 'ClamAV users M

Re: [Clamav-users] strace and threads (was Re: clamd stuck at 100% cpu usage)

2007-09-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> Yes, pretty much it. You should probably also use the -f (follow) >> switch to see what the kids are doing, too. > > Does strace work well with POSIX threads on Linux? My impression was not, > but maybe my informa

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
Micah wrote: >> No and yes. But you can write a small script, perhaps even a long command, >> to >> do just that. >> - -- >> René Berber > > Sorry if I'm a bit thick...but how? > > How can I get ClamScan to tell me what line (for a text file) matched a > signature? > Or > How can I get ClamSca

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
Micah wrote: >> There are scripts on line you can download that will split your single file >> into >> individual files - each a complete message. These you scan one at a time. >> After >> you've found and dealt with the infected message(s) you reassemble the >> individual >> files into a single

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
Micah wrote: >>> http://www.clamav.org/support/faq/ (the 8th item in Miscellaneous) says: >> The entire process takes less than a minute here on a file of around 4g in >> size. >> >> dp >> > > Okay, so I used mb2md to convert the mbox to 1692 files and then ran the > scanner. Check this out: >

Re: [Clamav-users] Strange behavior of Clamav with HTML email from Outlook

2007-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
Chinh Nguyen Tam wrote: > Greetings, > > We've notice some strange behavior of clamav in our email server for. > When we try to send some email (HTML format, Outlook 2003) with URL > inside, clamav detects these email as Email.Foolball-2 virus. If we send > the emails with the same URL in Thund

Re: [Clamav-users] Strange behavior of Clamav with HTML email from Outlook

2007-10-01 Thread Dennis Peterson
Chinh Nguyen Tam wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Chinh Nguyen Tam wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> We've notice some strange behavior of clamav in our email server for. >>> When we try to send some email (HTML format, Outlook 2003) w

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
Nigel Horne wrote: > Run "clamscan --debug " and look for the message > Deal with message number > > -Nigel I have to say, that is about the worst way I've seen yet to nail down a positive as there is a lot of debris to wade through, and there's no indication in the output that a virus has b

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
Christoph Cordes wrote: > Am 02.10.2007 um 19:24 schrieb Dennis Peterson: > >> Can anyone offer a reason why the OP found a virus in the mbox file >> but not in the >> split out maildir messages? That kind of inconsistency is unsettling. > > Just read my reply

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joao S Veiga wrote: > Hi, I was getting tons of these false positives (just reported&submitted a > sample). > > you can delete the line: > > Email.FreeGame:4:*:75626a6563743a{-30}(67|47)616d65*687474703a2f2f(31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39) > > from /var/lib/clamav/daily.inc/daily.ndb > > and it w

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joao S Veiga wrote: > Hi John, > >> think long and hard about the combination of payments and entities which are >> reduced to using numeric IPs in URLs. I suspect my business goes elsewhere. > > Agreed :-), but the problem is (and what has caused most of my problems) that > if > you have an e

Re: [Clamav-users] false positive of Email.FreeGame on MySQL DB

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Joao S Veiga wrote: >>> Hi John, >>> >>>> think long and hard about the combination of payments and entities which >>>> are >>>> reduced to using numeric IPs in URLs. I suspect my bu

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:24 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Can anyone offer a reason why the OP found a virus in the mbox file but not >> in the >> split out maildir messages? That kind of inconsistency is unsettling. > > Rather easy I

Re: [Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:45 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > Developers, read on. :) > >>> Somewhat simplified, the signature reads "Subject with the string game" >>> and "an IP sty

Re: [Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:47:02 +0200 > Karsten Bräckelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:45 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> Developers, read on. :) >> >>>> Some

Re: [Clamav-users] Sanesecurity ndb add-on question.

2007-10-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Kapp wrote: > Probably missing something obvious. Hope someone can kick me in the right > direction. > > using postfix/amavisd-new/spamassassin/clamd > > Yesterday I upgraded to the latest amavisd-new and spamassassin. > > Prior to the upgrade when clamd scanned the Eicar test and the > scam-sig

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
John W. Baxter wrote: > On 10/3/07 10:45 AM, "Dennis Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >>> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:24 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: >>>> Can anyone offer a reason why the OP found a virus in

Re: [Clamav-users] RFC: Recognize mbox format

2007-10-08 Thread Dennis Peterson
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:31 -0500, René Berber wrote: >> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > >>> Another downside of this approach, together with ClamAV treating mbox >>> format files as text/plain is, that only the first hit will be reported. >> That was made to improve perf

Re: [Clamav-users] Some question on freshclam

2007-10-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Pieter wrote: > Hi, > > I saw indeed that this info is shown upon running freshclam. However I do > not want to trigger an update to the servers. I only want this info. Just > running freshclam will add more load to your pattern file servers which is > not needed in this case. Hence the request ..

Re: [Clamav-users] Some question on freshclam

2007-10-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Pieter wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > Thanks. For this reply. Is it also possible to view the versions of the > local databases ? So not the version of those available at the mirrors? > (without grepping over the freshclam logfiles). > > Kind regards > Pieter If you have a daily.cvd file: sigtool --inf

Re: [Clamav-users] Does clamav protect against rootkits?

2007-10-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
Rob MacGregor wrote: > On 10/14/07, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks for the answers, does anyone know this for sure? > > Quoting the ClamAV home page: > > ...designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. > > So no, it's not designed to detect rootkits. > I don't thin

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar Identified But Not Moved

2007-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sean McGlynn wrote: > Hello, > > I am testing clamscan, and running the following command: > > clamscan -r --move=/var/log/clam/infected -l /var/log/clam/dailyclamscanSPM > /home/justlgn/test/eicar.com > > The results indicate "can't open file," and that no infected files were > found. The cl

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar Identified But Not Moved

2007-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sean McGlynn wrote: > Dennis, > > Thank you for taking the time to reply. > > Yes, I am running the scan as root. > > Sean > > Is the home directory mounted? Dennis ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http:/

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar Identified But Not Moved

2007-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Sean McGlynn wrote: >> Dennis, >> >> Thank you for taking the time to reply. >> >> Yes, I am running the scan as root. >> >> Sean >> >> > > Is the home directory mounted? > Should have said "NFS moun

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar Identified But Not Moved

2007-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sean McGlynn wrote: > The directory I am trying to scan is mounted, as is the directory to where I > want the infected files moved, if I am understanding your question. > > Thanks again. User root is frequently (and correctly) prohibited from deleting files from NFS mounted sources. There are m

Re: [Clamav-users] eicar Identified But Not Moved

2007-10-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sean McGlynn wrote: > Just to be certain (It's not my first day with Linux, but I'm still > relatively new > to it), you mean NFS as in Network File System, as in mounting a remote file > system on the Linux server, correct? If correct, then no, NFS is not > involved. > Both the directory bei

Re: [Clamav-users] Hacktool.PCGI false positive? What to do?

2007-10-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jonathan Kamens wrote: > Greetings, > > Recently, ClamAV version 0.90.2 with main.cvd version 44 and daily.cvd > version 4540 reported that an EXE on one of our servers was infected > with Hacktool.PCGI. This EXE came from a pretty reputable source, and > when I scanned the same file with Symante

Re: [Clamav-users] Vote for ClamAV as the best anti-malware solution

2007-10-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dean Brunson wrote: > I went there to cast a vote, too. I couldn't find any statement of how > they would use my e-mail address. I closed the window without voting. > Ditto - a data harvesting page if ever I've seen one. I think the least useful piece of info you can leave on that page is yo

Re: [Clamav-users] Recent viruses

2007-10-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Gomes, Rich wrote: > I received some emails yesterday matching the following: > > Infected messages: > Email.Ecard-28: 2 Message(s) > Email.Phishing.RB-1804: 2 Message(s) > Email.Phishing.RB-1806: 2 Message(s) > > > I think these are ClamAV-specific names, how can I find out more det

Re: [Clamav-users] Recent viruses

2007-10-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Gomes, Rich wrote: > Dennis, Thanks for the reply. I understand all of what you are saying, having > worked as a sysadmin for many years now. My issue is that even with most > vendors > using different naming conventions, they are "usually" cross-reference in any > technical info that is out there

Re: [Clamav-users] Vote for ClamAV as the best anti-malware solut ion

2007-10-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bowie Bailey wrote: > I found a privacy policy here: > > http://www.scmagazineus.com/PrivacyPolicy/ > > but I can't quite figure out what it is trying to say. > > Bowie > It says clearly they will provide, possibly for a fee, possibly not, all your information to their contacts list. In addit

Re: [Clamav-users] Vote for ClamAV as the best anti-malware solut ion

2007-10-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dave Warren wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dennis Peterson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Question: Why is this called a "privacy statement" rather than "an invasion >> of >> privacy statement"? > > Just because th

Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive

2007-10-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
John Rudd wrote: > John Rudd wrote: > >> I can produce 2 examples of messages that cause the problem, in RFC822 >> format, for anyone who wants to experiment with them. > > I decided I'd just go ahead and make them available: > > http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/ClamAV/318642.mbox > > http://peop

Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive

2007-10-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > Hello, > > A client of ours had a bunch of machines whose CPUs were maxed out > at 100% because of clam. Changing PhishingScanURLs to "no" from the > default "yes" dropped the load average from 70+ to about 3, and the > CPU usage from 100% to under 50%. This is under Linu

Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive

2007-10-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Joe Clements wrote: >> For what it is worth, Linux will only forge ahead in the market by >> improvements >> in 2 areas. One of them is security. I would like to see 1 security suite >> which >> has the capability to deal with ALL threats. Windows security has to have an >> anti virus, anti troj

Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive

2007-10-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Steve Holdoway wrote: >> I don't see where Linux is unique in this regard. I also don't see why the >> success of >> Linux is particularly important vs BSD, Solaris, Windows, etc. But I suppose >> that >> discussion is for another forum. >> > > I think the OP may beconsidering linux as a des

Re: [Clamav-users] Accurate subjects (was Re: PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive)

2007-11-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Monday November 12, 2007 at 04:22:47 (PM) David F. Skoll wrote: > >> Really? All posters on this thread who gave an opinion wanted >> PhishingScanURLs off by default. I invite users who want >> PhishingScanURLs to be on by default to come forward; I'll happily go >> wi

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all. > > We've had some consultant make the spurious claim that Clam AV only scans for > 'windows viruses' and is really only useful for 'scanning email'. > Despite the fact that I know this to be patently false, is there > documentation out there I can slap him

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-16 Thread Dennis Peterson
Gerard wrote: >> On November 16, 2007 at 10:14AM Christoph Cordes wrote: > >> So, what do you think - is this a solution that would work for the >> majority ? It would also be helpful - if this is a solution you could >> agree one - if you make suggestions what to include in the different >

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav best practices: VMware Server

2007-11-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
Unai Rodriguez wrote: > Dear All, > > We are managing a set of servers running Debian plus VMware Server (free > version). All of them are pretty busy since each of them run several > VMware Virtual Servers. > > I am trying to come up with a way (aka Best Practice) of having all > these machin

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > Ian Eiloart wrote: > >>> Hold on here. Are you stating that you expect users to actually RTFM? I >>> think you are expecting way too much. > >> No, it's not. Not when the users are professional IT people. > > :-) I don't think we hang around the same "Professional IT peo

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav best practices: VMware Server

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > Of course we aren't considering here the case where you might be looking, > say, for vulnerable libraries compiled statically into random executables. > Debian has some patterns for this that are instructional - they are used for locating static versions of

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav best practices: VMware Server

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Ian G Batten wrote: > On 18 Nov 07, at 0614, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Have you considered scannning only files that have changed (md5sum >> difference, for >> example) since the last time they were scanned? There's no need to >> scan a file >> endles

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> All of these problems are best discovered during the test stage in any event. > > Yes, but you know as well as anyone that you can't always simulate a > production environment in a test environment. We simply do

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> That which you can't test you are obliged to understand. If you >> can't understand a thing because of time constraints, complexity, or >> inadequate documentation, then you turn it off until circumstances >

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> They didn't turn it on and they didn't install it. They provided a >> sample config that is incapable of running and which requires >> administrative attention in order to use. What finally ends up >> ru

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Derick Centeno wrote: > > Hi Jim: > > For OS X the clamav engine works with the interface provided by > clamXav. You can take a look at that page here: > http://www.clamxav.com/ > > Whenever I'm in OS X, I never fail to be amazed at all the windows > virii, trojans and God knows what attem

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Gerard wrote: >> On November 19, 2007 at 11:43AM Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> Before the widespread use of Fusion and Parallels in the Mac this wasn't too >> much of >> a problem. Virtual machines have now made it more important to keep the OS X >> file &g

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav best practices: VMware Server

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Ian G Batten wrote: > On 19 Nov 07, at 1228, G.W. Haywood wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 Ian G Batten wrote: >> >>> On 18 Nov 07, at 0614, Dennis Peterson wrote: >>>> Have you considered scannning only files that have changed (

Re: [Clamav-users] Unknown Signature

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Derick Centeno wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm sure that you're aware that you can also switch that function off > by merely commenting out those lines. My 0.91.2 sample clamd.conf file says: # With this option enabled ClamAV will try to detect phishing attempt

Re: [Clamav-users] Unknown Signature

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Noel Jones wrote: > >> To disable these heuristics based signatures in > >> clamd/clamdscan, set > >> PhishingScanURLs no > >> in clamd.conf and then stop/start clamd. > > > > Derick Centeno wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I'm sure that you're aware that you c

Re: [Clamav-users] I need to refute a 'security expert'

2007-11-19 Thread Dennis Peterson
Derick Centeno wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Which is why my primary system is not OS X, but rather Yellow Dog > Linux (YDL)! This highlights the big gripe I have with Linux. You can't even talk about it without immediately indicating which vendor's Linux. It is

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Vulnerability

2007-11-20 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > >> This is getting boring! > > I'm sorry you find it so. I actually find this to be exciting reading: > > http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?o=0&l=30&c=12&op=display_list&vendor=Clam%20Anti-Virus&version=&title=&CVE= > > Please, Clam dev

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing feature defaults, naming, and 0.92

2007-11-21 Thread Dennis Peterson
Steve Wray wrote: > Christoph Cordes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> so in the end it boils down to this: >> >> - after a new release ClamAV should mimic the behavior of the >> preceding version by default unless it's a major release (.x0) or the >> user enabled possible new features explicitly. further

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance issues

2007-11-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Sheikji Nazirudeen wrote: > Hello: > I am in the process of scanning HP and Sun servers. I am running into > issues wherein, it takes a long time for the scan to complete. Is there any > way apart from exculding certain file extensions to increase the speed. I > would be much interested in a soft

Re: [Clamav-users] I having problem about the installation.

2007-12-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dzek wrote: > Dear alll, > > Anybody can help me on this, vhen i go to /var/lib/clamav/daily.inc/ there > is no file there. how do i copy one there. > > Thanks. You should have a tool that came with your clamav suite. Find and run clamconf and post the results here. Your configuration broken.

Re: [Clamav-users] How to remove an infected file.

2007-12-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
Unai Rodriguez wrote: > Dear all, > > Let's imagine that while scanning the system ClamAV finds an infected file: > > file: virus FOUND > > What is the best way to remove it? > > 1) clamscan --remove file > > NOTE.- What if the files is *BIG*? Do I have to scan it again to remove it? > ---

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jeffrey Rice wrote: > Hello, > Is there any way to reduce/control the memory use of clamd? I'm running > a co-hosted VPS, so memory is at a premium. I have 256 Mb of RAM on the > machine, and clamd is taking 95Mb of virtual, and has a 65Mb resident > footprint! That seems excessive, to say th

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> You are running a very underpowered system for a virus scanner. That >> is the real shame. Memory is cheap even in third world nations - >> there is no reason an on-demand system like a virus scanner should be >> shac

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> I'd be real tempted to >> farm out this function to a capable server via tcp/ip connections. > > Okay thanks, is there any guides to farm out such connections to help? > I use Sendmail and a milter, J-Chkmail whi

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Henrik Krohns wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:55:09PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> Dennis Peterson wrote: >>>> You are running a very underpowered system for a virus scanner. That >>>> is the real shame. Memory is chea

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Henrik Krohns wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:19:45PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> The messages/hour is not a parameter one typically controls. Systems I build >> are >> build to handle estimated worst case loads. > > Maybe you can't "control"

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd memory use

2007-12-11 Thread Dennis Peterson
Henrik Krohns wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:53:54PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Henrik Krohns wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:19:45PM -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote: >>>> The messages/hour is not a parameter one typically controls. Systems I >&g

Re: [Clamav-users] Documentation patch.

2007-12-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Gerard wrote: >> I believe that it is worth mentioning, that the receiver of said >> messages must insure that they do not engage in the practice referred >> to as "backscatter". >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter#Backscatter_of_email_spam >> >> An improperly

Re: [Clamav-users] How to find infected file

2007-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Baz wrote: > Hello, > > I installed ClamAV and ran a scan on my entire system returning a > report of one infected file. How do I find this file? I > Did you look in your log file? dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki

Re: [Clamav-users] How to find infected file

2007-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Baz wrote: > And where exactly is it? Do Linux developers intentionally make this > shit difficult and still bitch about Windows/Norton's dominance? Please crush with all your being any desire to top post. Apparently you've not read anything yet so a good place to start is the ClamAV Wiki. The

Re: [Clamav-users] How to find infected file

2007-12-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Baz wrote: > Or this > # clamscan -r / > > Dave, keep that smug attitude going. It only helps M$. Thank God I > still have XP on another partition. > Despite the fact that you are a top posting whining asshat who has no sense of personal responsibility, it's Christmas so I'm not going to tell

Re: [Clamav-users] Email viruses almost non-existent?

2007-12-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
Paul Kosinski wrote: > In December 2006, we were running ClamAV 0.88.7, and there were still > a fair number of "real" viruses being detected in inbound email. Now > running 0.91.2 and 0.92, there seem to be only phishing attempts, and > not even very many of them. In fact it seems that our log fil

Re: [Clamav-users] Source code for test/clam.exe?

2007-12-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
Cort, Tom wrote: > Hello, > > clamav comes with a sample virus (ClamAV-Test-File) for testing > purposes. It's located in the clamav source tarball in the 'test' > directory and named 'clam.exe'. I'd like to distribute it with a free > software program I maintain, but I can't find the correspondin

Re: [Clamav-users] Problème FOUND

2007-12-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
JF wrote: > > > > Est-ce que quelqu'un ou quelques personne pourrait me dire de quoi il > s'agit, et des étapes à faire pour les enlever si possibilité avec les > commandes pour que j'puisse pas trop galéré à faire n'importe quoi Bonjour JF Les fichiers sont des fichiers de test. Ils doivent

Re: [Clamav-users] out of date but up to date???

2007-12-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
john wrote: >>> ha >>> clamav-milter -V >>> ClamAV version 0.88.7, clamav-milter version 0.88.7 >>> >>> however when I try to configure with --enable-milter on the new version >>> 0.92 >>> I get: >>> configure: error: Cannot find libmilter >>> >>> any idea where I can find it? >> In the libmilter p

Re: [Clamav-users] Email viruses almost non-existent?

2007-12-31 Thread Dennis Peterson
Paul Kosinski wrote: > In reply to various responses: > > We haven't reconfigured our local or domain Postfix mail servers > recently to do graylisting etc., but in April we moved from a shared > Web host to a dedicated computer for our domain (iment.com). At that > time, we installed a what was p

Re: [Clamav-users] Clam bugs/vulns (was Re: Tomasz, you're an idiot, and you don't even know it)

2008-01-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > I think we all need to calm down. > > "Vulnerability" #1: Yes, cli_gentemp has a theoretical race condition. > Is it theoretically exploitable? Sure. Is it *likely* to be exploited > in the real world? No. You have to guess 128 bits of mildly-good random > data. That's

Re: [Clamav-users] Clam bugs/vulns (was Re: Tomasz, you're an idiot, and you don't even know it)

2008-01-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> Does any admin actually run this stuff without setting the temp >> directory ahead of time? > > I bet the vast majority do. I don't include Linux babies in that... > >> This problem is as old as Unix

Re: [Clamav-users] Clam bugs/vulns (was Re: Tomasz, you're an idiot, and you don't even know it)

2008-01-02 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >>>> Does any admin actually run this stuff without setting the temp >>>> directory ahead of time? >>> I bet the vast majority do. > >> I don't include Linux babies in that... > > :-) > &g

Re: [Clamav-users] Failure to detect first time

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Phil Chambers wrote: > > I was not aware that there was any way to get clamd to do anything other than > check the content of messages. The Sanesecurity signatures are just a set of > phishing and scam signatures for ClamAV which are used in addition to the > standard ClamAV ones. > > Given

Re: [Clamav-users] Private /tmp (was Re: Clam bugs/vulns...)

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
David F. Skoll wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> Then this may be something that could use some explanation. > >> Exactly what temp dir setting are you referring to and why should it be >> changed? > > Many (but not all) UNIX programs respect an environment variable > called TMPDIR that specifie

Re: [Clamav-users] Clam bugs/vulns (was Re: Tomasz, you're an id iot, and you don't even know it)

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Rob MacGregor wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 3:09 PM, Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Then this may be something that could use some explanation. >> >> Exactly what temp dir setting are you referring to and why should it be >> changed? > > If the environment variable TMPDIR is defined then wel

Re: [Clamav-users] sigtool and phishing

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
FM wrote: > hello, > I have lots of false positive with clamav phishing detection. > What is the correct way to remove these rules using sigtool? From a recent post: > You can disable the heuristics-based phish checks without > disabling the signature-based checks. Both the official > clama

Re: [Clamav-users] Clam bugs/vulns (was Re: Tomasz, you're an id iot, and you don't even know it)

2008-01-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
Rob MacGregor wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 4:09 PM, Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The success of this requires a bit of serendipity as well. If for reasons of >> convenience the new TMPDIR is globally writeable then nothing has been >> accomplished >

Re: [Clamav-users] Tomasz, ...

2008-01-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: > Gregory Carter wrote: >> I totally agree, but I think after you pointed out 4(a), all the other >> issues cited simply makes further discussion pedantic. > > Well, I'd like to add a remark. The discussion about all these issues > isn't pedantic, as long as...

Re: [Clamav-users] Failure to detect first time

2008-01-08 Thread Dennis Peterson
Phil Chambers wrote: > > How do I go about diagnosing this? Do you have log information showing that both messages followed the same path to your AV tool, beginning at port 25 of your inbound MTA? dp ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:

Re: [Clamav-users] EMLINK error in Solaris 10 .. in this case i DoS myself

2008-01-12 Thread Dennis Peterson
Daniel Garcia Bruno wrote: > Hi everybody, > First of all thank's a million for the work of the ClamAV team! > > I've been using it for few years now ... but is the first time I see > this problem after a Linux -> Solaris 10 mail servers migration : > SunOS dl380 5.10 Generic_127112-06 i86pc i

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